Re: (dsssl) character repertoire?

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim> I went to that site and looked at
Tim> <ftp://ftp.bna.com/pub/dspeck/jade/charnames/charnames.dsl>.
Tim> "Solidus" is a more formal name for a forward slash.  Also, the
Tim> first characters appear to be listed in that file in Latin-1
Tim> order, and I have a chart for that, so I can figure out an
Tim> unfamiliar name by the recognizable characters around it.  I
Tim> therefore think that \reverse-solidus should work for you.

Ok, this answered my question, thanks!  Unfortunately, it wasn't the
question I wanted to ask :)

What I really want is to make the TeX backend output a macro call of
my choosing.  When I do as above Jade escapes the backslash to a
'\char92' instead.  How to prevent that?

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